Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4193. Protests
Statutory text
Consuls and vice consuls shall have the right, in the ports or places to which they are severally appointed, of receiving the protests or declarations which captains, masters, crews, passengers, or merchants, who are citizens of the United States, may respectively choose to make there; and also such as any foreigner may choose to make before them relative to the personal interest of any citizen of the United States.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 1707
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4193
R.S. § 1707
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 1707
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 1707 derived from act Apr. 14, 1792, ch. 24, § 2, 1 Stat. 255.
Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.
Section was formerly classified to section 1173 of this title, and prior thereto to section 73 of this title.
Amendments
1948—Act , repealed second sentence relating to authenticated copies of consular acts received as evidence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1948 Amendment
Act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 38, 62 Stat. 992, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective .
Credits
1948 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 1707
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992.
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(R.S. § 1707; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992.)